On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:57:10PM -0500, Garl Grigsby wrote:
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>I have run into a problem I am not sure how to fix. When I log into
>another unix box (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX) from my linux box and try
>to use the Backspace key, I get a '^?' instead of deleting the previous
>character. Now I am aware that I can use stty to reset erase to be '^?',
>but this will not really solve the problem. All of the other unix
>flavors I am working with use '^H' for a backspace. So to get this to
>work, I would need to determine what type of system I am working on and
>set erase that way, if I want to do this from my .profile. Anybody have
>any better ideas on how to do this? I am assuming that this has
>something to do with the keymap that the linux box is using but, I am
>not sure how to correct this.... Please help....
>
My fellow efn.sysadmin Jay Jones has a script he runs in his .profile
to determine what his backspace key is sending and update stty to deal
with it; with his permission, i'll post it to the list.
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